Reversing device for motor cycles



Oct. 9, 1923. 1,469,984,

S. L. BARLOUGH I REVERSING DEVICE FOR MOTOR CYCLES Filed Nov. 19. 1921 Patented Oct. 9,1923. 1' r T IT r v STEPHEN L. BARLOUGH, or sasnvliw; eme. i

nnvnnsmsnnvron Fon' MOTOR CYCLES.

, Applicationi'iled rovmiier 19,1921. Serial NA. 516.388.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known thatI, SinrrrnNL. BAnLoUcH, in l3ig-.i 5.v a citizen of the United. States, residing at Figs. 7 and 8 are respectivelyfrear' and Saginaw, in thecounty of Saginaw and topplan views of thebracket that supports Y State of Michigan, have invented certain the reversing lever and gear shown in '60 new and useful Improvements in Reversing Fig. 5. r Devices for Motor Cycles; and I do hereby igFig. 9 is a diagrammatic viewfinpersped declare the following to be a full, clear, and tive, showing the usual gear-shifting mech Fig. 6 is aside exact description of the invention, such as anlsm of a motor cycle.

will enable others skilled in theart to which J As is clearly shown in the drawings, a 65 it appertains to make and use the same. gear-shifting.mechanisniof usual construc- This inventionrelates to-transmission tion, to which my inventionma-ybe;applied, gears of motor cycles and the like and perconsists in the cover 1 of thegear case, this tains more particularly to, an improved concover carrying. a'nichedduadrant 2 adaptr 6 struction of transmission gear whereby the ed to lock the gear-shift mechanismin high, 70 motor cycle. may be easily and quickly low, or neutral, position. Thequ adrantfi is r moved backward as well as forward, under carried by quadrant shaft 55* mounted in a its own. power. V i v suitable bearing in the cover ,1." Theshaft It has heretofore been custo-mary to so- 3 and the quadrant '2;areusuallyi m t d 2 construct the transmission mechanism of by a suitablequadrant shaftle'ver'e indi- I6 motor cycles that they can be drivenahead cated by dotted llines in ig. 1.. at various speeds, or set in neutral position, Withinthe gear case, not shown, is the but no' provision has usually been. made for usual drive shaft 5 connected to the engine, enabling the motor cycle-to be backed unand the usual driven shaft. 6 connected to der its own power. y 1 I the rear wheel of the motor cycled." .v 50

My invention more specifically pertains The drive shaft 5 carries an. idle gear] to an improved device that can be easily and a pair of slid-able gears 8 and stormed 7 applied to existing motorfcycles whereby integral and feathered, the feathers slidable the machine may becapable of reversing, in keyways 10 formed in the shaft, 5. I

and furthermore I provide meansto pre- 'One end of the'hub of gear 7 is pro- 5 ,vent the-mechanism being putinto reverse vided with a clutch member lliand a corre 7 position when the gears have been shifted spending clutch member l2is .provided o'nout of neutral, 'andI .also provide means the end of the hub of gearS. Since gear-8 for preventing the shifting of the gears revolves with shaft '5 and'gear' Tis idle,,

from high to low, when the reversing mechf when the clutch 11, 12 is closed, gear 8' 9 anism is in gear, 7 Will drive gears 7 and 13, and-shaft 6.

With the foregoing and certain other ob- Gear 13 is fixed to shaft 6, as also are; jects in view, which will appear later in the gears 14:- and 15. v 1 I specification, my invention comprises the de- A stationary guide bar 16 is provided, 7

vices described and claimed, and theequivaupon. which is a slidable hub 17 carrying 95 lents thereof. 7 a yoke 18 which engages the hub between In the drawings, Fig. l is a side elevation, the integralgears 8 and 9. A rod or pin 1 broken away in part, showing a motor cycle 19 projects upwardly from yoke 18 and is gear case cover with, my improvement atengaged by a hooked'arm 20 carried by the 1 tached thereto. quadrant shaft 3, so that when quadrant '2 100 Fig. 2 is a top plan view, showing the is moved to the right or to the left, the outer face of the gear case cover' partly gears 8 and 9 are correspondingly shifted broken away. I by the yoke18. 7

' Fig. 3 is a plan view of the gears arranged The foregoing is a description "of a usual in backing position. 1 type of motor cycle transmission gearing,

Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the gears and it is to such a change speed gear-' in neutral position. mechanism, or itsequivalent, thatmy.im-*

Fig. 5 is a detached planview of the re provement is adaptedto be applied. versing idler gear and the bar upon which In applying my improvement, I provide the gear is mounted.

, h an idler gear 21 of substantially double the width of gears 9 or and preferably movably mounted above said gears, as shown in Figs; 1 and-3. The gearQl is preferably mounted on an L-shaped rocker arm 22, which is pivoted at23 toa lOI'ElClKBCwQ-l car-.. ried by the cover 1 of the gear case. A. bent bar is secured to the upperend of bracket 22 and may extend across the outer face of the gear casecover, as shown in 2. 1 Bar 25 carries at its free end anroperating lever '26,"'by theinanipulaciOn of which the 'gear p, 21 may be raised or lowered and throvvn into or outof mesh, with gear' 15 or With niche formed-in a flange; Q-Qp'rovided on the,

' deredg-iinpossible for the driver to'backthe Vto the neutralposition-of 7 5- and 6. It, is thereby rendered impossible gear iants position.

gear 9 Wl1eIl the latter'is shifted-Joy means of yoke- 18 and quadrant shaft lever 1 so'as to be engaged bythe other half of gear 321. WV hen gear 21 in operation the driven shalt 6. rotates in theopposite direction and the motorcycle r ms-backward.

hubF o-f quadrantfl, 'as's'hown in Fig. 2.

'lli elug- 27 when in engagement with the nichel28, holds quadrant 2 against. turning.

: The laterally pro ecting flange 29 "prevents manipulation oflever 26 and the; engageme-nt ofg'ear 21 with gearsl and 9-, except When-the quadrant 2 is in such position that lug 27". can enter the niche 28'. This engaging position of gear 21' corresponds the gears on shafts for liever 26 tofbe manipulated to throw me e ex l except j when 'th e transmission gears are: in

theirinoperative or neutral Thelggea -rs 8; andfecan not be shifted from their high speed position to their slow speedposition; except 'When gear '21is raised and; thereiore, out of 'Ineshf By the-means above described 7 it is renvi lug carried bybar2 5; and 28 is a engagement s0 as'to back the gear-s adapted motor cycle under its oWn power, except when the transmission; gears are in their neutral-position r By the devices and combination of parts above described-{andtheir equivalents, as included in the scope of the claim, I have producedpia simple and eiiective: reversing device that can be readily applied to existin for'mso l motor'c cles the necessar art being adapted to be carried by the usual cover of the motorcycle gearca'se. 'My improvement, therefore, makesit possible for a standard motor cycle change-speed mechanism to'be easily'andquicklyconverted to enable-the motorcyele to1travel backward on its own power, andsuch alteration the change-speed device may be accom'p'lished the gear 21and its operating lever."

When applied to -motor' cyclesin process 7 'of'manufaeture, my improvement may be easil fao lied to the ear case cover Without arm and pro] ecting through said cover, a

I to releasably engageisa-i-d lever and quadranuior the'purposesmt forth;

. InYtestimon yi whereofil affixjmy signa srnri-rnn ne aenoueni gear arrangement} as hereto invention, What 7 merelyremovi-ng the gearcasecover and r substitutingfor it another cover carrying I I anzarni pivoted to =sa1dbracket; a bent l'ever 'fixed to said lift quadrant'anda latching means I V 

